Criticism of Neoliberalism, The State and Education on The Weight of the World: The Plan of a Transnational Social State and the Thesis of Unversalisation

Abstract

The aim of this article is to reconstruct and analyse “The Weight of the World” written by Bourdieu et al. from the perspective of criticizing neoliberalism, making it possible to understand the subsequent development of the theory of Bourdieu’s sociology. His criticism of neoliberalism resulted in the proposals of the plan for a “transnational social state” and the thesis of “universalising the conditions of access to the universal.” As a result, Bourdieu’s sociology developed into a new theory of state and the universalisation of culture. This suggests the theorical development of his sociology as “anthropology of power and legitimacy,” which differs from the understanding framework of cultural reproduction theory.